God of uncreated love

Verse 1
God of uncreated love,
God of spotless purity,
Send thine image from above
Breathe thy Spirit into me,
Purge mine evil heart from sin,
Make my inmost nature clean.

Verse 2
Smiting this polluted breast,
For thy purity I groan,
Never shall my spirit rest,
Till with thine intirely one,
Till in holy love renew’d
Sin I loath, and cleave to God.

Verse 3
O how distant from my hope,
How unlike my God am I!
Yet thy grace to me can stoop,
Yet thy blood can sanctify;
Let it now my soul inflow,
Make me as my Lord below.

Verse 4
Jesus, full of balmy grace,
Now thy virtuous power exert,
Foulest of the filthy race,
Lo, I offer Thee my heart,
Form it, Lord, averse from sin,
Cleanse the house by entring in.

Verse 5
By th’ indwelling God restor’d
To my pure, original state,
I shall never grieve my Lord,
Never do the thing I hate,
I shall all thy ways approve,
Love thee with a perfect love.

Verse 6
Come then, O my heart’s desire,
Strengthning me t’ abide thy day,
Sit as a Refiner’s fire,
Throughly purge my dross away
All my creature-love consume,
Come, my utmost Saviour, come!

Hymnal/Album: This hymn appears in the ca. 1786 manuscript “MS Miscellaneous Hymns.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/556, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 2). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 3 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1992), pages 163-64.
Publishing: Public Domain